Section Text
An inland1[mechanically propelled vessel] having engines of2[forty] or more nominal horse-power, but of less than3[one hundred] nominal horse-power, shall not proceed on any voyage unless she has --
(a) as her master a person possessing a second-class master's certificate granted under this Act, or any certificate referred to in clause (a) of section 25; and
(b) as her engineer a person possessing a first-class engine-driver's certificate granted under this Act, or an engine-driver's4[certificate granted or deemed to be granted under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1958], or any certificate referred to in clause (b) of section 25:
Provided that a1[mechanically propelled vessel] shall be deemed to have complied with this section if she has as her master and engineer a person possessing both acertificate referred to in clause (a), and a certificate referred to in clause (b), of this section.
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1. For the words "Steam-vessel" and "Steam-vessels" wherever they occur throughout the Act the words "mechanically propelled vessel" and "mechanically propelled vessels" substituted respectively section 5 (w.e.f. 1-5-1978.)
2. Substituted for "thirty" by the Inland Steam-vessels (Amendment) Act, 1920 (6 of 1920), section 6.
3. Substituted for "eighty", by the Inland Steam-vessels (Amendment) Act, 1920 (6 of 1920), section 6.
4. Substituted by Amendment Act, 1977 (35 of 1977), Section 20 (1-5-1978).